Zara
Zara is a girl's name that peaked in 2022, when it was the 201st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 212th. About 20,000 Zaras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Zara
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,930
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 201st
- Rank in 2025
- 212th
- First recorded
- 1896
How old the living Zaras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,930 babies given the name since 1896, about 20,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 17,000 of them are children and 120 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
A 20th-century variant of Sarah, or explained as Arabic زَهْرَة (“flower”); given to the daughter of Princess Anne in 1981.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Zaras
- Zara Tindall (born 1981)British Olympic equestrian; daughter of Anne, Princess Royal
- Zara Dolukhanova (1918–2007)Soviet Armenian mezzo-soprano singer
- Zara Rutherford (born 2002)Belgian-British pilot
- Zara Yaqob (1399–1468)Emperor of Ethiopia
- Zara Whites (born 1968)Dutch pornographic actress and political activist
- Zara Sheikh (born 1982)Pakistani actor-model
- Zara MuhammadiIranian former prisoner
People named Zara with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zara is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zara is most concentrated in Nevada (2.2×), Florida (2.0×), Maryland (1.9×), Virginia (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular girls’ names the year Zara peaked:
Zara elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Zara | 20,002 | 71st |
| Ireland girls | Zara | 2,655 | 43rd |
| Scotland girls | Zara | 2,629 | 47th |
| New Zealand girls | Zara | 1,718 | 32nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Zara | 1,456 | 32nd |
| France girls | Zara | 1,170 | 889th |
| Belgium girls | Zara | 584 | 279th |
| Italy girls | Zara | 409 | — |
| Norway girls | Zara | 328 | 267th |
| Switzerland girls | Zara | 289 | 370th |
| Poland girls | Zara | 157 birth registrations | 260th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Zara: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Zara | 207 | 0.017% | 312th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Zara | 70 | 0.016% | 230th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Zara | 12 | 0.018% | 122nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Zara is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 49 of them.
Zara: rank by region
In 2025, Zara was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Zara | 318 | 17 |
In 2025, Zara was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Zara | 167 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Zara appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (138th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Zara by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 51 | 225th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Zara among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Zara | 125 | 165 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Zara lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 989 women called Zara were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Zara | 7 | 0.162 | 672 |
| Cantabria | Zara | 29 | 0.095 | 737 |
| Rioja, La | Zara | 14 | 0.085 | 901 |
| Cádiz | Zara | 46 | 0.072 | 736 |
| Palmas, Las | Zara | 40 | 0.068 | 1,364 |
| Asturias | Zara | 35 | 0.066 | 943 |
Listed in 40 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 12 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Zara against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.